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I lost my F6 :/What Do You Do If You Spill Liquid Onto Your Laptop?I lost my F6 key of my unibody mac pro after coffee spillage. :/There was no sugar in the coffee. How ever there is a remnant of coffee which results the F6 key not functioning condition.How should I clean it. Is using a hypo and some alcohol applicable?-reply by Gökhan OZ

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Laptop Liquid Spill - Replaced Motherboard and Keyboard. Result?What Do You Do If You Spill Liquid Onto Your Laptop?

I have a Compaq F700 and spilled beer in the machine. The machine was only one week old! I sent it to Compaq and they indicated that both the motherboard and keyboard needed to be replaced and therefore they shipped it back to me because I wouldnt pay $750 for them to repair it. So, I bought and installed a new keyboard and a new motherboard myself and the laptop has the same problem it had before the repair. The power button on the machine, when pressed, turns on the unit for about 3 or 4 seconds, the fan starts, the hard rive spins, then it shuts off immediately. The power button light when pressed and the power chord connection at the laptop are both illuminated...But it powers down after 3-4 seconds.

Any ideas? I will say that I used the old CPU, heat sink, and fan on the new board...I wonder if these could have been damaged too.

Thanks in advance.

-question by Jack

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spilled whiskey on netbook...What Do You Do If You Spill Liquid Onto Your Laptop?

Yeah, it was a darn good whiskey! Aside for *****ing about wasting my drink, I would like to try to make it work again (keyboard not working, screen and sound OK). One guy who knows a thing or two about these things suggested to submerge it completely under lukewarm water for a few minutes, except the screen, which should open and, of course, after removing the battery. Work the keys while under water an d rinse it to dissolve all the gunk. Let it dry completely for 48-72 hrs. Any second opinions? How is the hardrive going to take this? Are they supposed to be waterproof or just dust proof?

-reply by terra2016

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PC + Margarita = MigraineWhat Do You Do If You Spill Liquid Onto Your Laptop?

So, I found this article, after the fact, while I was searching to see what else I could do. I was sipping a Margarita, and of course set it on the kitchen table where I'd left my Dell Inspiron E1505 while I was cooking. Of course, the dog that hardly ever chases  the cat, chose to and the cat subsequently knocked the glass over when he jumped up (dog is good-natured, just doesn't realize that cats don't like to play with him). I unplugged the computer, tilting it while I did, and removed the battery, not from any knowledge of this helping prevent shorts, mostly so I wouldn't get electrocuted. I let it sit, with the screen open, and the body of the computer upside down over a towel. Miracle of miracles, despite being doused, my computer is perfectly fine, after I let it dry out. I removed the keys individually, and cleaned them gently with Q-tips. No other liquids, because at the time I was thinking, liquids bad. But this worked for me, makes me not hate Dell as much. (Replacement power cord number 4 being used now, in under two years) :)

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first of all you should remove the battery and plug out the chrager from your laptop as soon as possible to avoid any electrical shock , then i suggest you to remove the keyboard from your laptop (most of the laptops are coming with separate keyboard, i mean you can remove it very easily from the body of laptop) and then use a hot air blower to dry the keyboard completely. after the keyboard dried you should search under the keyboard for finding any sign of liquid on other electronics, you can also use the hot air blower again on the elctronics that are moisturised by the liquid but remember that electronics inside laptop are very sensitive to high temprature and you may damage them if you keep the hot air on them for so long so you should be careful. never use any clothes for drying because the pins of electronic devices are very small and can esaily break with a little pressurre so never use such things for drying anything inside the laptop.

actually the time it takes for you to remove the battery and unplug the charger is very important, if you do it fast i can say nothing will happen and your laptop will be 100% functional after drying but if you do it slow or try to shut down the laptop using normal procedure then i can say if liquid goes inside the laptop it will damage parts under keyboard like RAM or other parts. another important thing is where the liquid spills if it spills on the middle of keyboard then the plastic cover under the keyboard will block it from going inside but if it spills in the corners of keyboard then it can go inside and it is very dangerous situation.

@Guest_Jill_* : i didn't completely understood what you said but i think the water is now trapped between the LCD and the Protective glass in front of it , you can use a hot air blower to dry the water or if you can you should remove the protection glass and try to dry it by a cloths carefuly. maybe a picture from what you are facing now can be more helpful to help you but if water is under protection glass then you don't have to be worry because LCDs will not face serious damages will water spilled on them and it will dry itseld but the signs of where it dries will remain under the protection glass so it is better to take the glass off and clean it.